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G. E. BAUDER & Ar M. PHASE. HARNESS PAD BLOCK. N0. 278,079. Patented May 22,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. BAUDER AND ALFRED M. PEASE, OF SANBORN, DAKOTA TER- RITORY.

HARNESS-PAD BLOCK.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 278,079, dated May 22, 1883.

Application filed September 30, 1882.

To all whom it may concern? Be it known that we, GEORGE E. BAUDER and ALFRED M. PEAsE, both of Sanborn, in the county of Barnes and Territory of Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness-Pad Blocks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a plan view of the recessed block. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the improvement, taken through the line a: 00, Fig. 1,-and showing the parts in position to shape the padleather. Fig. 3 is a sectional end view of the same, taken through the line y 3 Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a bottom view of a part of one of the pressingplates.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the shaping and making of harness-pads.

The invention consists in a harness-pad block made with a recessed block adapted to receive and shape the pad-leather, a series of movable pressing-plates adapted to fill the interior of the pad-leather anddistribnte upon it any pressure applied to the' plates, and a pressing device adapted to press upon the plates and force the pad-leather into the recessed block. Upon the sides of the're-- cessed block are formed flangesto receive hooks-formed upon the ends of an arched bar having a screw-hole in its center to receive a hand-screw for forcing the pressingplates into the recess of the block to give proper shape to the pad-leather, as will be hereinafter fully described.

A represents a block, which has a recess, B, formed in it, of the exact shape and size of the required pad.

'0 D E F are thin plates, which together form a compound block of the shape and size of the required pad, and which have holes G,

formed through their middle parts, to receive -an awl or other instrument for centering the said plates upon each other. In each of the plates 0 D E F, near the end, is formed a hole, H, to receive the point of a hook for draw- (No model.)

ing out the said plates one at a time. By constituting the pad -block of a series of plates the pad can be fitted upon the block, thus formed, more closely, and a smaller opening is required to be left for the removal of the plates than with the useof the ordinary solid pad-block.

Upon the upper part of the sides of the recessed block A'are formed flanges I to receive the hooks J, formed upon the ends of the arched bar K, which has a screw-hole through its center to receive the hand-screw L. The hand-screw L should have a button,

M, swiveled upon its lower end to prevent it from marring the pad-top.

In using the pad-block a piece of leather, N, of the proper shape and size to form the pad-bottom, is placed over the recess 13 of the block A. The plates 0 D E F are centered upon an awl or other suitable instrument, are placed upon the leather N, spread over the block A, and a piece of sole-leather, O, of the proper shape and size for the padtop, is placed upon the top of the plate F. The pressing device-J'K'L is thenarranged upon the middle part of the block A, and the handscrewL is turned down, forcing the plates 0 D E F into the recessB and giving the proper form to the pad-leather N. The edge of the pad-leather N is then turned over the padtop 0, aloug'the lower end of the pad, and So I along both sides nearly to their centers, and tacked to the pad-top O. The inner plates, F E D O, are then drawn out, one at a time, with a hook, and the pad is stuffed with goats hair or other suitable material, after which 8 the remaining part of the edge of the padleather is tacked to the pad-top O, and the pad is completed in the ordinary manner.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Let- '0 ters Iatent- 1. In a pad-block, the pressing-plates O D E F, made, substantially as herein shown and described, of a series of thin plates forming a compound block of the shape of the required 5 pad, as set forth.

2. In a pad-block, the combination, with the block A, having the side flanges, I, of the screw L, and the yoke K, having its ends provided I with inward-projecting hooks J, as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth. I

3. In apztd-bloek, the combination, with the 5 block A, having; recess 13, of the series of pressingdates O D E F, substantially as herein shown and described, whereby the desired I shape can be given to the pad-leather, as set forth.

GEORGE E. BAUDER.

ALFRED M. PEASE.

Witnesses:

LoUIs S. LENHAM, N. L. LENHAM. 

